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Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of widespread service outages during the height of last summers deadly wildfire
Indianapolis police have fatally shot a male pointing a weapon at other people and threatening to shoot them
Mississippis Republican-led Legislature has completed a last-ditch effort to revive a bill to regulate transgender peoples use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings
Police say they have detained the driver of a white Toyota Camry who briefly accelerated toward a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Portland State University in Oregon
A former Milwaukee election official convicted of misconduct in office and fraud for obtaining fake absentee ballots has been sentenced to one year of probation and fined $3,000
Global Citizen NOW says it wants 2024 conference attendees to invest long-term in the African continent's fast-growing youth population and increase outreach to young changemakers
The United Nations says the world hasnt seen anything like the unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza since World War II, and it would take at least until 2040 to restore the homes devastated in Israels bombing and ground offensive if the confl...
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The South Carolina Senate has approved a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
Nearly two months after the election, a recount settled the outcome in a Northern California U.S. House primary contest
Police officer fired gun while clearing protesters from Columbia University building, Manhattan prosecutors say
A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a deceased man who vanished under mysterious circumstances to set standards for a future independent autopsy of her late husbands body
Arizonas Democratic governor signs bill to repeal the states 1864 ban on nearly all abortions
A judge declared a mistrial after a jury said it was deadlocked and couldn't reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago
A Georgia business owner who repeatedly attacked law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison
The start of the first civil trial stemming from the deadly crowd surge at the 2021 Astroworld festival in Texas has been delayed
A candidate seeking the Republican nomination for a central North Carolina congressional seat has announced shes suspending her campaign days before her primary runoff election
Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas
The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to rule on whether the state is violating its own constitution with a program that would spend $10 million public money on infrastructure grants for private schools
Although it might be tempting to compare the U.S. campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War movement of a half century ago, experts say that would be an overreaction at this point
Georgias governor has signed a bill putting new regulations on the production and sale of products containing kratom, a plant-based supplement
The fate of a decades-old Tennessee policy that does not allow transgender people to change the sex designation on their birth certificates is in the hands of a federal appeals court
The IRS says it's taken steps to address a wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers and others filers
Torrential rain has caused flooding in southeastern Texas
Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners against military contractor
A Colorado dentist charged with killing his wife by putting poison in her protein shakes is now accused of asking a fellow jail inmate to plant letters to make it look like his wife was suicidal
Exxon Mobils $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources has received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, but the former CEO of Pioneer was barred from joining the new companys board of directors
South Carolinas ban on abortions after roughly six weeks is back in court and centered on the definition of fetal heartbeat
A North Carolina man is charged with mailing an antisemitic threat to a rabbi in Georgia
Tiger Woods is headed to the U.S. Open after receiving the first of what likely will be many special exemptions
At least 2,000 people have been arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses since April 18, AP tally shows
A Pennsylvania man who authorities say killed his girlfriend in a Nevada desert has been convicted
Alabama lawmakers gave final approval to legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the states November ballot
Police say a 22-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was slain while off-duty and heading home from work
A Kentucky judge won't remove an injunction that has blocked executions in the state for more than a decade
A House bill ordering North Carolina sheriffs and jailers to comply with federal immigration requests to hold an inmate suspected of being in the country illegally passed the state Senate
Both sides of I-95, the East Coasts main north-south highway, have been shut down in southwestern Connecticut
The rate of businesses in the U.S. using AI is still relatively small but growing rapidly
Arrests continue on campuses around the U.S. as police dismantle camps of students protesting Israel's war in Gaza
A Texas school board has accepted a voluntary separation agreement with its superintendent who was suspended after removing a transgender student from a role in the musical Oklahoma!
Lawyer Keith Davidson has returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump's hush money trial following a contempt hearing over whether Trump has again violated his gag order
President Joe Biden has expanded two culturally significant California landscapes: the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in Southern California and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Northern California
Biden says campus protests haven't prompted him to rethink Mideast policies, and he opposes sending in National Guard
Biden says dissent must never lead to disorder as he condemns campus pro-Palestinian protests that have turned violent
A bipartisan group of senators wants restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by the Transportation Security Administration
Police in Fort Worth, Texas, says four children are among six people wounded in a drive-by shooting at an apartment complex that Police Chief Neil Noakes called stupid
A festival celebrating Asian American literary works that was suddenly canceled last year by the Smithsonian Institution is getting resurrected
The first serious effort by Mississippis Republican-led Legislature to expand Medicaid could be crumbling
Authorities say they've recovered the body of a fifth person who was missing after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge more than a month ago
President Joe Biden is detouring to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job